OSNews: Interview with Ximian's Nat Friedman

"1. Which version of GNOME is Ximian Desktop 2.0 based on exactly, and what changes have you applied when compared to the vanilla Gnome?

"Nat Friedman: XD2, as we like to call it, is based on GNOME 2.2, Mozilla 1.3 and OpenOffice.org 1.0.3.

"We've spent a lot of time polishing the user experience and making sure things just work. Our focus is on creating _usability through consistency_, which lowers support costs for big organizations that replace Windows machines with Linux.

"We have a new desktop theme called Industrial which themes GTK version 1 and 2. It's also a Nautilus theme, a Galeon theme, an XMMS theme, an OpenOffice.org theme, a Metacity theme, and an Icon theme. This means that the desktop looks and feels unified..."

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